Sentence examples for ordinary goes from inspiring English sources

Only if the expectedly ordinary goes haywire do you notice the offstage apparatus.

One of Outcast's strengths is that it can take something ordinary – going to the supermarket, bowling pins being reset, a trip to a hospital – look creepier than any of the hellspawn that is taking over the population.

The things that should act as intermediaries between Mayer's thing and the life in and around it – balustrades, shop fascias, ceiling panels and paving – are ordinary going on shabby.

Levy's characters are not gloriously beautiful, deeply accomplished or utterly tragic; they live in ordinary circumstances, go about ordinary lives.

Ordinary people going about ordinary tasks.

Despite the destruction, ordinary life goes on — to an extent, at least.

Under the Lemon Tree could be subtitled "ordinary bloke goes nearly mad in middle age".

Zeus turned Ceyx and Halcyon into graceful birds after her dream, while ordinary life goes on for the bereaved families.

From Doon with Death (1964) Chief Inspector Reginald Wexford first appeared in Rendell's debut novel, when an "ordinary" wife goes missing in the small Sussex town of Kingsmarkham.

This criticism of the scientific and philosophical use of certain ordinary terms goes along with rejection of philosophical questions which make essential use of those terms.

"Ordinary people, relatively ordinary people going in and taking things from stores.